“It is a serious matter when the administration violates city ordinances,” Belinski said at Tuesday’s council meeting. “I don’t think that anybody should be above the law.”

Express-Times File PhotoBethlehem Business Administrator Dennis Reichard.City Business Administrator Dennis Reichard acknowledges exceeding the $1.8 million that council approved for borrowing from the flexible fund account to make a $2 million pension payment in October as well as using $335,643 in casino host fees toward a $353,500 medical payment the following month.

“We were waiting for revenues to come in. We needed to make medical expenses and a pension debt payment,” he said. “I was never above the $1.8 million except the $2 million borrowed. You can get me on that one point.”

Reichard claimed he forgot about the city ordinance that requires council to approve all casino host fee expenditures.

“I would have asked for the medical payment,” he said. “It won’t happen again. That’s the best I can say right now.”

Belinski has asked that Spadoni review legal options with the board by Jan. 19.